Thomas M. Kostigen, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters, so much so that their citizens are seeking refugee...
By Denise Robbins Special to the NNPA from Media Matters NEWS ANALYSIS Climate change deniers have been talking a lot about “energy poverty” to criticize Pope...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The concept of global warming and the environmental justice movement started to grow during the Nixon administration. President Nixon...
Karl Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy they’re talking...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There is a bee that hovers by my mailbox. I have never had this experience. When I approach the...
Akshat Rathi, QUARTZ (Qz.com) — Spring is time for the glorious beginning of new things. Most people celebrate it, but not the many millions...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Global warming isn’t just affecting the weather, it’s harming Americans’ health, President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he announced steps government and businesses will...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment,...
VATICAN (Reuters)—Pope Francis might be preaching to the choir on climate change when he releases his environmental- and sustainability-focused encyclical later this year. A study...
(Huffington Post) – President Barack Obama told Vice News in an interview released on Monday that it was “disturbing” that the chair of the Senate Committee on...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Yes, the dot-com era was filled with fraud. One year, we had 14 high tech startups pay sponsorship...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The leader of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change stepped down on Tuesday amid an investigation into a colleague’s allegations...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have seen from time to time organized, polished scams that present themselves as a positive contribution to...
Josh Lederman, ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU (AP) — Warning from President Barack Obama to congressional Republicans: I have a veto pen and, come January, I won’t...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With limited time still in power, President Barack Obama is staking his final two years on climate change, pushing...
Joby Warrick and Steven Mufson, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post)—For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industry’s first family, scions of...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Some 300 environmental activists yell their support for stricter pollution rules proposed by the Environmental...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For most of the nearly 30 years since Dr. Nicole Brodie’s asthma diagnosis, the athlete and Army...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the classic commercials of the 1970s, when technological advances in food processing made it possible to enhance...
STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell got a firsthand look Thursday at the effect of climate change on ever-receding Jamestown...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A record-high 356 temperatures were tied or broken across the contiguous United States in 2012, marking the...
By Carlton Brown Special to the NNPA from The Mississippi Link PERSPECTIVE “Our Negras are happy here in Mississippi. It’s the outside agitators causing the...
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When it came time to deliver a new federal report detailing what global warming is doing to America...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have started to hear it all over again. The intense and record cold weather has led ideologues on...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Climate change is a fact. We have seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, which rotate on an eternal basis. ...